Automatic record-changing apparatus



Dec. 20, 1966 J. FOUFOUNIS 3,292,930

AUTOMATIC RECORD-CHANGING APPARATUS Filed Oct. 28, 1963 Jf/Zrney:

United States Patent ICE 3,292,930

Patented Dec. 20, 1966 pairs of which define the compartments housingthe rec- 3,292,930 ords. The flanges 6 are provided with recesses 9which AUTO TIQI RECORD-CHANGING APP allow removing the store through atraising movement with Jean Fol flgfi l l b -1 9 ;P fi g ggg a view tosubstituting for it an identical store provided 1 e c a 5 with a furtherseries of records.

0 Claims pnonty apphcamm Switzerland 1/62 FIG. 2 illustrates amodification wherein the apparatus 12,590/ 62 1 Clahm (CL 4 2 and itsremovable store are housed lnslde a portable case 10. On the inside ofcover 11 is a downward pro- Automatic record-changing apparatus fortalking majection 12. The cover 11 of said case engages tangentiallychines are known which include a store of records and at 12 the upperedges of the records so that said records means for selecting andreproducing the records. In most 5 and the removable store carrying themare locked in apparatus the store is rectilinear or circular and formsposition between three axial lines and are held fast during an integralsection of the support on which the apparatus transportation. Saidarrangement may be replaced by is set. The records are housed inaccordance with a the use of a removable bar holding the parts inposition, predetermined classification in several compartments, so 15 sothat, upon mere closing of the cover or mere introthat they may be takenhold of by the jaws of an autoduction of the bar, the apparatus becomesfit for actual matic arrangement. A number of said conventionalaptransportation without any risk of shifting of the records paratusinclude a carrier plate incorporating at both ends or of a release ofthe actual store. flanges rigid with the plate and interconnected bycross- My invention is not limited to the embodiments debars which areinterconnected in their turn by arcuate scribed hereinabove and it isapplicable, generally speakmembers the number of which defines thestoring capacity ing, to all types and shapes of record-carrying stores,of the records stored. Said apparatus show the drawwhether rectilinear,curvilinear or circular, the object of back of requiring a manualreintroduction of the records the iHVBHtiOH Consisting in Providingremovable and interinto the store, this being performed in successionfor the changeable stores. different records. In order to increase thenumber of IC a m s available records, the producers equip theirapparatus with POrtable automatic record Changing apparatus storescontaining as large a number of compartments as prising means forselecting and playing records and record possible. However, the outersize of the apparatus in- Storing equipmfint Contained thin a h usinghaving a creases simultaneously and it is necessary to resort to a lidin its pp P and abutment means in its base, Said middle course between areduction in bulk and an increase record ri g quipment having abutmentmeans in its in capacity of the store. lower portion and in its upperportion, spaced compart- M i ti h f it bj t an t ti dments in each ofwhich a record can be held so that it changing apparatus which removessaid drawbacks, said P j Substantially above the level of the Store,Said apparatus being of the type including a record store and abutmentmeans of Said Store bhing mmovably engaged an arrangement for selectingand reproducing the records, with that of said housing so as to locatesaid record storing According to my invention, the store is constitutedby equipmfiht in Said housing, Said lid having a dOWIlWard a removableit adapted t b dil h d d projection on the inside thereof, closing ofsaid lid causreplaced, while means are provided for positioning the ingSaid Projection to be urged into downward Pressing store in theapparatus in a manner such that the apparatus engagement With records inPosition ill Said record Storing may be immediately ready for operation.q p

The accompanying drawing illustrates, by way of ex- 7 ample, a preferredembodiment and a modification thereof References Clted by the Examine!In said drawing: UNITED STATES PATENTS emfggimle an elevational partlysectional view of said 4 3,085,805 4/1963 Bodenroder 274 10 FIG. 2 is asimilar elevation view of a modification 3131936 5/1964 Hagen 274 10thereof. FOREIGN PATENTS The apparatus illustrated 1n FIG. 1 includes asupport- 285,292 2/1928 Great Britain ing plate 1 carrying rails 2 overwhich "a selecting and 324 482 1/1930 Great Britain reading carriage 3runs through the agency of its rollers 5 1,073,712 9/1954 France.

4. The carriage 3 is provided with a conventional mech- 734 977 8/1 5anisrn which is not illustrated, which serves for locking, 309227 32 glgg gggg taking hold of and reading the successive records 5. 32446211/1957 Switzerland The free section of the plate 1 carries the flanges6 which align the removable store between two upstanding NORTON ANSHERPrim Examiner edges. Said flanges 6 are parallel with cross-members 7 yand 7 carrying parallel arcuate members 8, the successive W. E. JACKSON,J. F. PETERS, Assistant Examiners.

